Steven Morgan, who has authored a good number of my favorite posts on this blog, sent me this job description for a position for which an organization he is involved with is hiring. It sounds like a dream program. A purely peer run non-medical, safe place for people in mental distress to go. _________________________________________________... Continue Reading →
Developing unconditional friendship means taking the very scary step of getting to know yourself. It means being willing to look at yourself clearly and to stay with yourself when you want to shut down. It means keeping your heart open when you feel that what you see in yourself is just too embarrassing, too painful, too unpleasant, too hateful.
Brief radio program with Robert Whitaker giving a synopsis of his seminal work on psychiatry and psychopharmacology from while Robert Whitaker was touring Ireland: Robert Whitaker on Today With Pat Kenny (listen here) On the show also is an avid supporter of biopsychiatry, Patricia Casey who debates Robert Whitaker. From the programs website: The acclaimed... Continue Reading →
Stigma and mental health professionals ~~ I made a phone call to a trauma therapist who is an MD as well but not a psychiatrist. Below is the email I sent him. He had abruptly ended the call and told me to send him an email if I wanted to say more. I think I could hear his eyes gloss over when I referenced Charles Whitfield’s work and said that psychotropics could be “agents of trauma.” Or maybe I lost him as soon as I said that I’d been on massive doses of psychotropics for twenty years. There is no better way to lose credibility quickly than acknowledging you were party to such a thing. They quickly go to, oh, “I’ve got an unreliable mental patient who really needed the drugs here.” EXCEPT they don’t think that either. They have a knee-jerk reaction and they won't ever acknowledge it.
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